Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never wanted them to be able to do this to women ever again." That, said Muriel Kraszewski, 52, of Long Beach, Calif., was why she joined two other women in 1979 to sue State Farm Insurance for sex discrimination. The women had applied to be sales agents, but were turned down for no valid reason...
Last week their long legal battle ended in triumph. State Farm agreed to pay $420,822 each to Kraszewski and two other plaintiffs: Wilda Tipton, 45, of Ventura, Calif., and the estate of Daisy Jackson, who died in 1983. The settlement calls for possible payments of $15,575 to $420,822 to other women who applied for 1,113 sales-agent jobs in California during the past 13 1/2 years. State Farm believes the settlement will cost no more than $50 million, but the plaintiffs' attorney estimates that the bill will be as high as $300 million. That would make...
...help corporations hold down medical costs, a whole new industry of medical efficiency experts has sprung up to track employee health care. Cost Care, based in Huntington Beach, Calif., monitors medical treatment for 4,000 U.S. companies. The doctors and registered nurses who work for the firm follow the progress of hospitalized patients and sometimes give advice on appropriate treatment. Cost Care boasts that it can cut corporate health costs as much...
...sets down nearly 300 pages of testimonials supporting the hypothesis that women are attacking women in the workplace with carefully veiled venom and viciousness. "If women are going to sabotage someone, it's more likely to be another woman than a man," declares Briles, 42, a former Palo Alto, Calif., stockbroker...
...backlash against development was probably inevitable, particularly in rapidly developing Western states, where many residents consider densely packed urban centers uninhabitable. Says Gerald Silver, president of the Homeowners of Encino, Calif.: "We were in favor of progress until we found out what it looks like." This urban claustrophobia is largely a bipartisan phenomenon. In conservative Orange County, Calif., Republicans have joined with liberal Democrats on a ballot initiative to require developers to pay for the impact their projects have on city streets and services. Says Thomas Rogers, a co-sponsor of the measure and a self-described right-winger...